Not That Guy - Retirement Message

My peoples of the net, I come bearing some sad news but good news as well. I shall start with the good news.

It seems the last four months have been the source of much awesomeness. As of September I have become engaged to be married to my beautiful girlfriend of six years. We are also moving to Brisbane Australia soon. So soon in fact, that we scheduled the marriage for the end of December. That’s right I’m going to be a married man in less than two weeks. Also on the big accomplishments list, as of this moment I am officially done my degree. On Friday I successfully defended my thesis on the subject of pharmaceutical removal in drinking water using activated carbon for decentralized systems. No less than 2 hours ago I handed in my office keys and I am now currently sitting in an airport waiting for plane back to Edmonton (land of Nitro and Freak). I am happy and I am relieved to be done the most difficult undertaking of my life. I am happy to say I now have a Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering.

Now for the bad news. I have been asked by Freak and Nitro to hand in my blogger keys and resign from the site. It saddens me and is not something I wanted to give up on but it is understandable. My last entry was August 28th and since then my page has remained empty. It is now mid-December going on new year’s and the renewal license for the web domain linking to my blog is about to expire. The start and stop nature of my contributions have prompted the site owners to not renew the address. As such the site will be gone on the new years. I am also sorry for the short notice, it is entirely my fault. Nitro told me of their decision nearly two weeks ago but I decided to put it off the farewell until after my thesis defense.

I got involved with this project of theirs back when they were still calling it a “hobby”. I was thrilled to see them put their creative talent to work. I encouraged them to continue in whatever ways I could. So when they asked me to contribute I gladly threw some of my own effort towards the site. That was a year ago though, and since then my efforts have been lacking. Certainly I have had good excuses for deprioritizing the site these last four months but I know from my own experience leading projects, that good excuses still don’t contribute to the success of a project. I am still glad to have had my chance to contribute and have learned valuable skills from this work. Heck the skills I gained allowed me to snag a part time job editing and creating promotional videos for research grant proposals (which got me a free trip to Vancouver to boot!).

The remainder of the site Freakandnitro.com will still be around churning out their superb content and radio casts. If you haven’t yet visited them do give it a chance. Simply click a link up top.

Before I go. If you are to take anything away from site it is that you need to watch “Nichijou”, you need to watch “Tiger and Bunny” and you need to watch “Welcome to the N.H.K”. If you are looking for something from this season may I recommend “Working” for a slice of life title, “Bento” for the absurd and “Mirai Nikki” for a horror.

Well that’s it.

For the last time, this is Not That Guy signing off.

Editor's Note - NTG will no longer be making regular editorials on the site, but will appear periodically over time in a cameo role. We at freakandnitro.com want to thank NTG for all his contributions and wish him and Mrs. New Mexican Ninja all the best in their future endeavors
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